Red, or new team arcs for Gold & Blue, which one(s) you looking most forward to?

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Red, since I'm a Jean Grey fan and look forward to seeing her new role after her resurrection.

Same, and SUPER-glad it seems to be getting a similarly favorable (early) reaction from (the usually, harder-to-please) fans, as it has from critics. Gets me even more pumped to read it myself later today, as I'm savin' it, to savor it's apparent eXcellence properly.

... in both cast & story focus, appears to be engendering at least cautious optimism, I would say.

But then there's Gold...

... that's garnered less support than those that just HATE EVERYthing!

What can be done with it, ANYthing, at this point? Or is it a lost cause, with no hope for redemption, so... scrap it, and start over with somebody & somethin' completely new? Its reception seems to be akin to Lemire's Extraordinary, so it almost feels like its spiritual successor, in many ways. IDK, maybe they did go a bridge too far, and then burn it afterward... SMH. :/

Hello, What do you think will happen to all the other main Characters ? Storm, Collossus, Archangel, Psylocke, Beast, White queen, Rachel ? Some others where not really relevant since a long time Bishop, Banshee, Forge... so there is not not so much missing finally, but there a lack of cohesive cast IMO
what do you think?

... in both cast & story focus, appears to be engendering at least cautious optimism, I would say.

But then there's Gold...

... that's garnered less support than those that just HATE EVERYthing!

What can be done with it, ANYthing, at this point? Or is it a lost cause, with no hope for redemption, so... scrap it, and start over with somebody & somethin' completely new? Its reception seems to be akin to Lemire's Extraordinary, so it almost feels like its spiritual successor, in many ways. IDK, maybe they did go a bridge too far, and then burn it afterward... SMH. :/

-Get Guggenheim off (most important)

-Switch around the roster SLOWLY

-Either retire Kitty/Piotr or have her come out then leave the team to find herself (with Karma)

And that's leaving out some of my favorites like Cecelia Reyes, Longshot, Sage, Forge, Dr. Nemesis and Frenzy... I get Marvel wanting to usher in this "new era" of characters, but you can't just force things like this, and then get all dumbfounded, panic and reboot the line for the 2nd or 3rd time in a year. X-Men has a huge catalog of characters but there are only really about three dozen or so characters that people care about. And they care about those characters because, hey they're good. They've been built up over years and gained followings. Inserting obscure characters into prominent roles with "ok" at best writing is like shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly. Looking forward to Red but that's because its the best looking out of the bunch.

Originally Posted by Blaquesmith

Hello, What do you think will happen to all the other main Characters ? Storm, Collossus, Archangel, Psylocke, Beast, White queen, Rachel ? Some others where not really relevant since a long time Bishop, Banshee, Forge... so there is not not so much missing finally, but there a lack of cohesive cast IMO
what do you think?

Not sure 'bout "will happen", but riffin' off donepricetag's thoughts & suggestions, this is what I wouldn't mind seein':

Hello, What do you think will happen to all the other main characters? Storm, Colossus, Archangel, Psylocke, Beast, White Queen, Rachel? Some others were not really relevant for a long time: Bishop, Banshee, Forge... so there is not so much missing finally, but there a lack of cohesive cast IMO. What do you think?

It's very unlikely these rosters are permanent. There's no way Marvel would take these characters off the board so to speak. Storm, Colossus, Rachel & Kitty will likely return to X-Men Gold (unfortunately. Archangel and Psylocke are in Astonishing X-Men for now, dealing with the threat of Proteus. Emma Frost is an antagonist in X-Men Blue, aligning herself with Bastion and Miss Sinister. Beast is an Avenger, at least for the duration of the No Surrender storyline. All of that is susceptible to change of course, but those characters do all currently have a role in the MU. As for the others you mentioned, Bishop is also in Astonishing X-Men. Banshee is in a lab somewhere after being a Horseman of Death for a time, and Forge occasionally pops up, but doesn't have regular appearances in any particular title.

There will always be X-Men who don't make a roster, and that's just the way it is. The best we can hope for is that our particular favorites are being used, and written by a competent writer who understands them.

I'd hope that after Blue & Gold deal with a few dangling plot threads, and Astonishing concludes, that there will be some changes across the X-line anyway.

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-Get Guggenheim off (most important)

-Switch around the roster SLOWLY

-Either retire Kitty/Piotr or have her come out then leave the team to find herself (with Karma)

-Put Storm in position of headmaster

-Make this a monthly title with only one artist

All of this.

-Guggenheim has got to go. It's not the X-Men if it's only a continuous strain of poorly written romantic subplots and unconscious mutants.

-Roster changes are necessary to freshen up the book a bit, but as you say, gradually. OML has left, hopefully for good. Kurt doesn't need to be in two books simultaneously, so I'd just have him permanently in Red. Kitty & Piotr are approaching a new phase of their lives, and Rachel has some mysterious fate. I very much doubt it, but the entire Gold team could disband. Some of the temporary Gold roster may remain (Iceman, Magik, Rogue, Ink, Armor) which wouldn't be the worst thing (unless if Guggenheims writing). Pixie promoted to the big leagues again would be nice, and I'd say Sunfire, Jubilee or OG Wolverine would be nice picks.

Nice! I love how inclusive these are for mutants from all corners of the X-Men. I've just got a couple proposed line-ups here, but damn it is so hard. I keep changing my mind, and trying to balance them is a real mission. Anyway, here's one set of concepts